Old School Burgers: Long summer nights call for griddled burgers and fresh-cut fries eaten outside to the strains of oldies-but-goodies pumped through crackly speakers. Enter Old School Burgers, packed on hot weeknights with high-schoolers on double dates downing double burgers. (And if someone in your party’s not down with burgers, Tokyo Joe’s is right next door.) | 901 W. Hampden Ave., Englewood; 303-789-1174 | Tucker Shaw
Hot Spot: Free Wi-fi in coffee shops is so yesterday. What this town really needed was free Wi-Fi in a burrito joint. Hot Spot, stuffed into a nondescript strip mall on Union Boulevard just north of Alameda Avenue, fills the bill. Come at lunch for a spicy smothered burrito (only $3.50) and catch up on salacious celeb news – the place is well stocked with all the latest tabloids. | 85 S. Union Blvd., Lakewood; 303-984-5447 | Tucker Shaw
Icky ice cream? Which sounds worse: spinach or tomato ice cream? Find these and many more disturbing frozen concoctions at a website devoted to exposing things that are bad. My top 10 list, compiled from the list of 101 frightening ice cream flavors from around the world:
1. Fish (Japan); 2. Wasabi (Japan); 3. Raw horse flesh (Japan); 4. Garlic (made in the tiny Aomori Prefecture village of Shingo); 5. Pit viper (Japan); 6. Squid gut (Japan); 7. Tomato (Japan); 8. Crab (Japan); 9. Chicken wing (Japan); 10. Ox tongue (Japan) | www.who-sucks.com/food/101-frightening-ice-cream-flavors-from-around-the-world | Andrea Labak
